new user: welcome email

[Christopher]

When people are added to a site, they receive a welcome email. From what I
know, we have not customized it. Not even sure if it’s possible to customize
it.
In the email they receive, there is a line

Group description: Use this group to give people contribute permissions to
the SharePoint site: <name of site with link>

The problem is that the link that is rendered is relative, not absolute. It
contains a value similar to /sites/MyNewSite rather than
https://server.com/sites/MyNewSite
Further down in the email there are links that are absolute.

Is this something we can influence?
Is this a SharePoint bug?

[Steven Cheng]

Hi Chris,

As for the welcome email of sharepoint site(assume you're using wss 3.0),
based on my test, it should contain the absolute server url like below:

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
As a member of this SharePoint group, you can:

* Participate in the SharePoint site at:
http://sharepointasia/sites/sitename
* View the group home page at:
http://sharepointasia/sites/sitename/_layouts/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=
5
What is a SharePoint site?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Have ever made any particular changes on your site?

For customizing or modifying the email notification template, here are some
articles which may help you:

#Is it possible to modify SharePoint email notifications?
http://blogs.msdn.com/anolan/archive/2008/01/07/is-it-possible-to-modify-sha
repoint-email-notifications.aspx

http://www.uvm.edu/~jgm/wordpress/?p=122

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[Christopher]

Based on those two links, my conclusion is that you cannot change the
templates unless you modify some SharePoint resx files; something that is not
very supported. This is not something that we have done.

Then there seems to be some other reason for the link being relative. Below
is the content of a welcome email from our system. Some of the links are
absolute, but one is relative. It's hidden under the text 'Global
Collaboration' that is a hyperlink in the received email.

Welcome to the 'Global Collaboration Visitors' SharePoint group. MOSS Setup
Account (DOMAIN\user) has added you to the 'Global Collaboration Visitors'
group for this SharePoint site.
Group description: Use this group to give people read permissions to the
SharePoint site: Global Collaboration !!!![this has a link as / ]!!!!!

As a member of this SharePoint group, you can:

* Participate in the SharePoint site at: http://abc.com

* View the group home page at:

http://abc.com/_layouts/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=4

""Steven Cheng"" wrote:

> know, we have not customized it. Not even sure if it’s possible to